Twilight of the mission frontier : shifting interethnic alliances and social organization in Sonora, 1768-1855 / by José Refugio De la Torre Curiel

Author: Torre Curiel, José Refugio de la.
Published: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2012.
Physical Description: xxx, 323 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Representing the Sonoran Landscape: Geographical Descriptions of Sonora in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries -- A Note on the Identification of Indian Groups in Sonora -- The Creation of Space -- The Early Eighteenth Century -- The Effects of Peace in the Mid-Eighteenth Century -- Spatial Organization Projects in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century -- The Reinvention of Sonora -- ch. 2 Population Trends in the Mission Districts of Sonora -- The Franciscan Missions in Sonora after 1767 -- Pimeria Alta -- Pimeria Baja -- Opateria -- ch. 3 Changes in the Lifeways of Indian Towns -- Loving God in Indian Country -- The Ambiguity of Location: Living among Christians versus Becoming a Christian -- Changes in Governing Structures of Indian Communities -- Changes in the Everyday Life of Frontier Societies -- Indian and Spanish Material Culture -- Frontier Horizontal Mobility -- Interethnic Alliances in the Transformation of Sonora's Northern Frontier -- Pluriethnic Bands in Sonora -- The Protector of Indians -- When Mission Residents Ceased To Be "Mission Indians" -- ch. 4 Sonora's Frontier Economy in the Late Colonial Period: A Captive Trade Network -- The Economic Transition as a Conceptual Problem -- The Sonoran Economy in the Mid-Eighteenth Century -- Scarce Currency and the "Labyrinth of Prices" -- The Fagoaga-Ximenez Company and Sonora's Captive Clientele -- Price Increases: Taxes, Freight Charges, and Forms of Fraud -- Payment Systems for Goods and Wages -- Commerce and Forms of Coercion -- ch. 5 Local Adaptations of the Franciscan Mission Regime -- The Mission Regime When the Franciscans Arrived in Sonora -- New Mode of Governance: Custody of San Carlos de Sonora -- Reaction against the Custody -- Dissolution of the Custody -- Changes in Mission Administration and Generational Crisis -- The Communal Properties of Franciscan Missions in Sonora -- Generational Crisis in the Pimeria Alta Missionary District -- ch. 6 Leaving Sonora -- The Expulsion of Spaniards and Its Aftermath in Pimeria Alta -- Secularism and Mission Secularization in Pimeria Baja and Opateria.

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Missions—Mexico—Sonora (State)—History—18th century
Missions—Mexico—Sonora (State)—History—19th century
Franciscans—Mexico—Sonora (State)—History—18th century
Franciscans—Mexico—Sonora (State)—History—19th century
Indians of—Mexico—Missions—Mexico—Sonora (State)—History—18th century
Indians of—Mexico—Missions—Mexico—Sonora (State)—History—19th century
Social structure—Mexico—Sonora (State)—History—18th century
Social structure—Mexico—Sonora (State)—History—19th century
Sonora (Mexico : State)—Ethnic relations—History—18th century
Sonora (Mexico : State)—Ethnic relations—History—19th century

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9780804785044 (hardcover : alk. paper)
080478504X (hardcover : alk. paper)

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-301) and index.

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Twilight of the mission frontier : shifting interethnic alliances and social organization in Sonora, 1768-1855 / by José Refugio De la Torre Curiel

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